PRACTICAL FORESTRY. 



Schools of Forestry and commence planting operations, I 

 would suggest those counties where not only the greatest 

 areas of mountain and heath-land are to be found, but 

 where other advantages are offered, especially in the way 

 of timber removal and ready sales. 



ENGLAND - Yorkshire and Northumberland, with 1,019,924 

 acres of waste land. 



SCOTLAND - Inverness and Argyllshire, with 3,087,412 acres 

 of waste land. 



WALES - - Merioneth and Breconshire, with 461,320 acres 

 of waste land. 



IRELAND - Donegal and Kerry, with 657,337 acres of waste 

 land (exclusive of 172,436 acres of bog- 

 land.) 



From these figures it will be seen that, were such 

 necessary, we could get all the ground required for 

 afforesting purposes in one county of England, one of 

 Scotland, and three of Wales and Ireland. But, for 

 various reasons, such a course would be undesirable, and 

 the better plan would be to take portions from two 

 English, two Scotch, three Welsh, and three Irish counties. 



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